Necessary gender parity in electoral lists - Violation of the principles of gender equality and substantive equality
Adoption of children “in special cases” – Recognition of kinship resulting from adoption – Violation of the principle of the equal treatment of all children, regardless of whether they are born in or out of wedlock or adopted
Medically assisted procreation – Refusal of the civil registrar to name the intended mother together with the biological mother
Medically assisted procreation – Refusal of the civil registrar to name the intended mother together with the biological mother
Surrogacy – Registration in Italy of a born-by-surrogacy child’s foreign birth certificate - Possibility of granting the status of child recognised also by the intentional mother
Failure to make a timely diagnosis of foetal pathology - Pregnant woman’s inability to make her own decision as to voluntary termination of pregnancy after the 90th day of gestation - Compensation for damage caused by unwanted birth
Refusal of the civil registrar to two women’s request to correct their child’s birth certificate by naming both as mothers – Child born in Italy through recourse to medically assisted reproduction carried out by a female same-sex couple
Prohibition of surrogacy as an obstacle to the recognition of the foreign order establishing the filiation of the child born abroad – Prohibition in Italy of transcription of the foreign order naming the intended parent as the child's parent
Refusal of the civil registrar to name in child’s birth certificate both women as mothers - Child conceived by medically assisted heterologous procreation and born abroad - Adoption in ‘special cases’ is the legal instrument for the intended parent in same-sex couples
Heterologous medically assisted procreation – Same-sex couple – Inability to register in child’s birth certificate the intended mother’s name together with the biological mother
Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Request for correction of parts relating to sex and name of birth certificate
Adolescent repeatedly raped by her adult cousin – Ineffective remedies due to domestic authorities’ stereotyped preconceptions as to the applicant as complicit in her own abuse – Lack of an intersectional gender and childhood perspective in conducting the criminal process without avoiding revictimization – Violation of the duty of strict and enhanced due diligence and of the special protection required in a complaint of sexual violation against a girl – Violation of the rights to humane treatment, a fair trial, equality before the law, private and family life, of the child and judicial protection – Revictimizing attitude materialising in forensic exams conducted improperly with potential secondary harm to the applicant and interviews repeated on multiple occasions during the investigations leading to increased distress
Obstetric violence as a form of gender-based violence - States' obligation to prevent, punish and refrain from practicing obstetric violence as well as to provide adequate, specialized and differentiated health services during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth to guarantee the mother's right to health
Dissenting / Concurring: Sierra Porto / Pérez Goldberg
Revocation of the certification to teach Catholicism after having entered a same-sex relationship in violation of Catholic canon law - Violation of the right to equality and non-discrimination, the right to privacy, and the right to work - Court's order to institute a concrete judicial review procedure to allow state officials to carry out a control of the religious authorities’ assessment of suitability of religious teachers serving in public schools
Dissenting / Concurring: Sierra Porto
Article 8 (Positive obligations) - Inability to obtain recognition of legal parent-child relationship between child and biological mother’s former female partner
Adoption procedure initiated by the authorities in breach of the mother’s and her child’s right to respect for family life - Evaluation of the alleged mother's inability to fulfil her parental duties based on stereotyped assumptions concerning gender roles and her sexual life
Dissenting / Concurring: sexual expression, discrimination against women, adoption
Ineffective investigation into allegations of forced abortions and forced contraception after rape by a doctor in a neuropsychiatric residential asylum of three intellectually disabled applicants with legal capacity - Respondent State's failure to establish and apply effectively a system protecting intellectually disabled women in psychiatric institutions against serious breaches of their integrity - Inadequate criminal legislation and lack of mechanisms to prevent such abuse
Article 3 (substantive and procedural) - Abortion performed at a public hospital in breach of medical standards and against the will of a vulnerable young adult coerced by her parents
Dissenting / Concurring: Peeter Roosma, Mikhail Lobov
Sterilisation without consent not reaching a requisite threshold of severity in case circumstances - Decision made in context of unexpected and urgent situation, after thorough consideration by a medical panel, and driven by genuine concerns for health and safety - Failure of doctors to seek and obtain express, free and informed consent for sterilisation, as required by domestic law
Dissenting / Concurring: Georgios A. Serghides, Darian Pavli / María Elósegui
National legislation providing for a pension maternity supplement to be granted to women who have had a certain number of children – Exclusion from entitlement to that pension supplement of women who have requested early retirement
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan